Patents by Inventor Devon Leigh Manz

Devon Leigh Manz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for managing cold load pickup using demand response
    Patent number: 8600573
    Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously restoring power to loads in a distribution network that experienced an outage. The pickup load on the feeder in the distribution network is estimated and the load limit on the feeder is determined. The load on the feeder is divided into groups based on the load limit. A restoration load control process is determined, and power is restored to each of the groups simultaneously based on the power restoration control process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jason Wayne Black, Harjeet Johal, Devon Leigh Manz, Reigh Allen Walling, William Jerome Burke
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COLD LOAD PICKUP USING DEMAND RESPONSE
    Publication number: 20120158198
    Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously restoring power to loads in a distribution network that experienced an outage. The pickup load on the feeder in the distribution network is estimated and the load limit on the feeder is determined. The load on the feeder is divided into groups based on the load limit. A restoration load control process is determined, and power is restored to each of the groups simultaneously based on the power restoration control process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Jason Wayne Black, Harjeet Johal, Devon Leigh Manz, Reigh Allen Walling, William Jerome Burke
  • SYSTEM AND METEHOD FOR PROVIDING POWER GRID ENERGY FROM A BATTERY
    Publication number: 20110137481
    Abstract: A system for providing energy and other ancillary services to a power grid including a renewable energy source. One or more power converters are integrated with the renewable energy source. A battery-based energy storage system is also integrated with the renewable energy source. A control system including an algorithmic software operates to control at least one power converter together with the battery-based energy storage system to supply stored battery energy to the grid when the cost of extracting the stored battery energy supplied to the grid via the battery-based energy storage system is less than the market price paid for the stored energy supplied by the battery-based energy storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Devon Leigh Manz, Robert William Delmerico, Sumit Bose, Nicholas Wright Miller, Rajni Kant Burra, Kathleen Ann O'Brien